[SCENE:  Deep inside that sector of the Fifth Intergalatic Realm™ known as the Southern Command.  Slow pan to a point about 140 degrees from the opening shot.
We then see a spatial displacement come into view.  The translucent shimmer becomes the faint outlines of an image, which then coalesces into an oversized, seemingly-upside-down Klingon Bird-of-Prey.
Cut to:  the bridge of the recently repaired ISS Pegasus, which has just decloaked someplace it was not previously known to be.]
VENOMOUS:  And that’s a problem, Narrator?
KORRIOTH:  Well, we usually file a flight plan with someone, y’know.
VENOMOUS:  Look, Bumpy, when I go on vacation, I don’t give a shit if anyone  know where I’m gonna be…
K’HADIBAK’H:  Uh, guys…
KORRIOTH:  …you know, so a certain Black Helicopter Fleet™ isn’t tempted to engage in…
[At that very moment, the bridge is rocked violently, back & forth.  Cut to previous external view, and the Bird-of-Prey is now surrounded by what seems to be four Husnock warships, each taking turns firing on Pegasus.
Cut back to Pegasus’  bridge.]
KORRIOTH:  …target practice.
K’HADIBAK’H:  Four warships, Admiral.  IDs… [Kha double-checks his board] …it’s the Black Helicopter Fleet™, sir.
T-BONE McMANX:  Admiral, we’re being hailed.
VENOMOUS (with a very  annoyed look on his face):  (sigh) On screen.
[On the viewscreen, space is replaced by a very familiar image.]
VENOMOUS:  Supreme General Rayegun.
RAYEGUN:  What did I tell you about coming through the Southern Command™ without proper permittage-ery?
VENOMOUS:  And what did I tell you about the Southern Command™ being part of my  Realm™?
[The Supreme General of the Realm™ renders what could only be described as a smart-assed smirk.]
RAYEGUN:  Damned straight, Narrator.
VENOMOUS:  I do  hope you’re enjoying your new toys, General.  Figures you’d hog ’em all and not share…
RAYEGUN:  Funny you should mention that…
[Cut to external view.  Yet another spatial displacement shimmers & coalesces into a fifth Husnock battlecruiser.
Cut back to Pegasus’  viewscreen.
RAYEGUN:  Meet your new flagship, Admiral – ISS Vengeance.
[It’s a Realm™ first:  Admiral Darth Venomous…is speechless.]
RAYEGUN:  What did I tell you, Korrioth?
KORRIOTH:  Five hundred credits on their way, General.
VENOMOUS:  Wait.  You had a bet  on this…?
[Rayegun & Korrioth look away & adopt feral grins as we fade to black…]
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IN THE SOUTHERN COMMAND – She had been christened Excelsior II.
That was before I got it out on Texas State Highway 130.  (For the Uninitiated™, that’s the Austin-to-San Antonio toll road, where the speed limits run up to 85.  Not that anyone ever observes them…heh…heh…heh…)
This car makes the original Excelsior  feel like driving my old Cavalier.
Damn.  Just, damn. 
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FYI denizens. The Admiral was NOT the only one to receive a new flagship. He’s just jealously trying to copy me…..
THIS is my new conveyance.
Not exactly a “vicarly” ride. I guess I will stick with my old Saturn. 🙂 She has the rather unoriginal name of “the Blue Beastie”. You hot-dogs enjoy your fighter pilot rides. 🙂
Not really all THAT fighter pilot-ish rides Vicar.
THIS OTOH would be!!! Awesome trivia tidbit, Southern Command HQ is about 25 miles east of that shop where those little gems are constructed.